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I came across this a little while ago. Liked it enough to blog.
There’s one upright spindle/ with tendons around its girth/ orbs at tendons’ end, so little/ revolve with gaiety, pure whim, and mirth/ some lose steam and slam into the spindle/ Behold! A hundred score pieces and dirt/ The others revolve, unbridled!/ And with bliss, yet tethered/ Tempus fugit; the spindle recedes into oblivion/The orbs are all alone./Unrestrained and out of a union/ that they’d taken for granted all along/ The thrust that drove them in a circle/changed nature, and pushed them far apart/Once, they were all of a spindle/About which they now know not.
~R.S.G. Priest
I looked for R.S.G Priest, but no go. So no linkback.
The twentyseventh Chennai PhotoWalk
Vatsan, who shall be my culture minister and the third in command in the soon to be unveiled Chandrachoodan World order, has a great route for this walk.
So after the successful exhibition and walking through Mylapore, Im sure we are all bored of Mylapore for photowalks. So we should trek to another part of town this time.So this time we end the photowalk, where we left off in one of the Madras Week Photowalks. Yep in another ancient part of town with with old houses, one of which has been restored to house the Rasam Resturant, namely Puraisaiwalkam.
So we start the walk at Nehru Park (its opposite Sangam Theatre on Ponmallae High Road) and walk down Flowers Road, take the right T Junction and proceed till Dewan Rama Road (take a u turn after finishing this rd) and come back to the Flowers road again till M Ct M school (Rasam) and take the left at Gangadeeswarar Koil street and proceed till the temple.
And end it at the Gangadeeswarar Kovil.
Starting Point: Nehru Park
Time: 7. Am
Date 7th Feb 2010.
And Then there is always the option of Welcome Hotel’s lovely Sambar Idlies for breakfast.
For directions and for other queries, call Vatsan on 95000 70176 or 94449 99456
Question
Would a cultured, kindly and important resident of Berlin be an Urbane, germane, humane urban German human?
The sight of Madras and the Sound of Music
So, here are a few of my favourite Madras things.
5 AM filter coffee (sugary, but good) at Udipi Welcome
6 AM Sambar iddli at same Welcome
Filter Coffee and Real Vanilla ice-cream at Peter’s road Saravana Bhavan. (Ice-cream first, then Filter Coffee.)
Walking from Nilgiris/Radhakrishnan Salai to Ranjith hotel in Nungambakkam High Road at 7 in the evening.
Doing the same walk the next day, but with two friends for company.
Walking along Thanikachalam Road, Dr. Nair road, TP Road, Valluvar Kottam and Village road because you were bored of riding your bike.
Bored, so you take your bike out and go everywhere, without getting anywhere, and enjoy traffic for what it is – a huge affirmation that the city is still alive, is worth living in. Powercuts between 6 and 9 in the evenings, so you walk out and gossip with cousins and uncles and neighbours, catching up on old family scandals while the air cools down, mosquitoes warm up. Those 2-3 hours spent doing nothing, but sitting on the steps out your home.
Mint Street, Parry’s Corner, Fort St. George, Mandavelli-Mylapore markets, P.T Rajan salai, Natesan Salai and 9th Sector, KK Nagar, Sardar Patel Road, Mount. Road, Chamier’s Road and TTK Road, GN Chetty Road, Jeeva Park, Bazullah Road, Rangarajapuram/Samiyar Madam, Besant Avenue, Besant Lane, Besant Road, Peter’s Road, Gen. Patter’s Road, Pattulo’s Road, White’s Road, Greame’s Road. Tambaram via Velachery, GST Road from Airport to Tambaram, Irumbuliyur Road/NH45/NH4 to Poonamallee.
Thalankuppam, Water, Beach, Sand. Sitting with your feet at the edge of the wave at 11 AM in Thiruvanmiyur, after a night spent at the office, working with bosses who’ve become friends. Foggy mornings on Napier bridge, clear skies over Broken bridge, evenings and sunsets at Muthuswamy Bridge/Zero point, Watching red taillights of cars diminishing in size while standing on Anna Flyover. 5 minutes later, another motorcyclist stops and the two of you watch taillights of disappearing cars on NH road.
The Chennai PhotoWalk/Mylapore Festival Exhibition
The Chennai PhotoWalk folks have collected some of the best photos of Mylapore. Ever. In December, if you recall, Vatsan organised two special walks in Mylapore, to document the locality’s specialties. The idea was that the organisers of Chennai PhotoWalk and Mylapore Fest will collaborate to curate an exhibition of photos of Mylapore’s unique architecture and contagious mood.
Vincent and Vatsan have vorked out the logistics and all, and the exhibition is all set to go live. I’ve seen some of the images, and I honestly think they are nothing short of amazing. (More photos below the fold.) Vatsan is, as you read this, printing the first batch of photos. And shortlisting a few more photos (As supreme lord of PhotoWalking, and as the Prince of Madras, I have final veto. It’s a power I wear light).
Anyway, it promises to be a superb collection.
If you are in Madras, please do go take a look at the exhibition. And buy a few photos, help support these talented photographers. If you are not in Madras, perhaps a good time to come? The weather’s nice and pleasant now, and a lot of events are in the offing.
Start Time: Thursday, 21 January 2010 at 18:00
End Time: Sunday, 24 January 2010 at 21:00
Location: Lady Sivaswami Girls High School Mylapore
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Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan is a copywriter, photographer and goofball from Chennai. He is also an archaeologist, historian and a city lover. He is currently a documentary film-maker and desk-monkey for a film production house.
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